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By ThePickwickProject on
During the past year, I've gone through the Drupal learning curve. The good news: we're almost there to convert our existing site to Drupal. The challenge: all migration scripts are ready, but we face some challenges with multiple users who registered with the same email. In some cases, it's because they never activated their registration, but there are also cases where key users are registered with two accounts with different roles. At the moment, these duplicate users are not migrated, but their posts are, which results in orphaned nodes. I found only one thread about handling users with the same email: http://drupal.org/node/15578 . We're talking about 7000 users with a couple of hundred duplicates.
--> Is there someone who can help us decide how to approach this? Is there a way to force the same email address for different accounts?
Thanks!
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This seams to be a big
This seams to be a big problem, I also have a site that we are converting to Drupal frm PostNuke and have a lot of family members with separate accounts but the same e-mail address.
I did find a tried on a mod to disable the requirement but from what I can tell it still has a problem when sending the lost password e-mail?
Will this (has this) be addressed and corrected in the core?
When?
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This is considered a security issue and will never be permitted in core imo-- which is why there is a contrib ;-)
Many other CMS can do it
Many other CMS can do it without a security problem, why can't Drupal?
"which is why there is a contrib ;-)"
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